HyperDic: adult_tooth

English > 1 sense of the expression *adult tooth*:
NOUN	body	adult tooth, permanent tooth	any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age

English > *adult tooth*: 1 sense > noun 1, body
Meaning	Any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age.
Synonym	permanent tooth
Broader	tooth	Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates